Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 19 July 2016
488. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 429 of 12 July 2016 to outline the reason for the landings and the exercises or operations the aircraft were involved in. [22608/16]
View answerMy reply to Question number 429 of 12 July stated that the US Embassy had reconfirmed that US military aircraft that landed at Shannon Airport last month were not part of a military operation or exercise.
The requests for landings by these aircraft concerned crew rest, aircraft refuelling, airport familiarisation, passenger transfer and aircraft maintenance.
